The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-08-24
SAYINGS BY BOB INcERsoLL.
Extracts from an Address Made by Him
In Lecture In New York.

In lecture delivered in New York re
Gently, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll among
other things said:
If nobody has too much everybody
will have enough.
would like to see this world so that q
man could die and not feel that he had
left his wife and children e prey to the
greed or avarice or necessities Of man
kind.
There IS something wrong in the sys-
TEN when idleness is burdcned With
wealth and industry with famine:
Get out of your minds that old non
sense about mans free moral agency.
A man is no more responsible for his
character than for his height, OF for his
acts than for his dreams. Then you
will have charity for the whole human
race.
Wealth is no crime, nor is poverty a
virtue, although virtue has generally
been poor.
There is only one good-human happi-
ness.
To do right Is the bud, blossom, and
fruit of wisdom.
No perfectly civilized man could be
happy while there was al unhappy be-
ing in the universe that he knew.
The poor imagine that the rich live in
Paradise. l know that the most Of them
live in q gildcd Hell.
No man has the genius or the brain to
own s5,000,0 900. The money OWNS him.
He is the key to o safe Yet these men
70 on accumulating. 1t is sort Of in
sanity. Imagine q man-a good, intelli-
gent man-with 10000 coats laugh
ter 5000, 900 or 5000, 900 hats [chcersl
4 billion nccktics laughter and cheers
Then imagine him getting up at I:3O
o'clock in the morning and working hard
all day to get another necktie. Pro-
longcd applause.
Great wealth is the mother CT crime.
Thc gulf IS growing wide between
Lazarus and Dives, only the two have
changed places-Divcs is in Abraham s
bosom.
The rich have scorn and contempt for
the poor; the poor envy and hatred for
the rich. There must be some way for
the loving poor and the sympathetic rich
to get acquainted. If there is anything
that should bring mankind together it is
common belief, but in this Christian
country there is no welcome in til" velvet
for the rags. I would think much OF
any religion that would allow the rich
and the poor to clasp hands, if only for
one instant once week.
All men are not capable of getting a
living now. Some are not cunning
enough, not strong enough, not stingy
enough.
Millions of machines have been in
vented to save labor, but the l&bcrer
does not own the machine. The M
chine owns the laborcr.
No man should be allowed to own any
land that he does not use; but l would
not take an inch of land from any one
without paving for it.
If it were possible to bottle the cir
there would be a great American Air
Bottling Association before Sundown to-
morrow, and millions would be allowed
to die for want of q breath il they were
unable to pay the monthly air bills.
I would not only sec homes made free
from attachments for debt, but free from
taxation also. Then we would nave 4
nation and L nation of patriots
There is something about money that
dries up the affections. l suppose that
one reason of it is that the moment
man gets any money there are 50 many
irving to get it away from him that lie
thinks the whole race are his enemies.
l don't blame the rich, mind vou; they
are the natural products Of the system:
Blame the system.
The first great remedy is the ballot
The poor are in the majority. It the
law opprcsscs them it is their fault.
They have followed the fife and drum OF
some party. No man should 20 with q
party unless 1t is going his way.
\ civilized man will never want 10 sell
thing for more than it is worth, nor
will he want to buy anything for less
than what it is worth.
am not afraid Of moNopolicS The
people viii stand oppression 20 . certain
point, ard then the cnd will come.-N
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